About the Authors

Lixia Yao

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Anna Divoli

Affiliations Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Ilya Mayzus

Affiliations Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

James A. Evans

Affiliations Computation Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Sociology Department, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Andrey Rzhetsky

arzhetsky@uchicago.edu

Affiliations Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Computation Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LY AD JAE AR. Performed the experiments: LY AD IM. Analyzed the data: LY AD IM AR. Wrote the paper: LY JAE AR.